VacationSelector

Dresden or Los Angeles?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DresdenLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
DresdenLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 5 points.5
DresdenLos Angeles
Score6166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4222
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenLos Angeles
Score5449
Museums within 10 km6669
Museums within 2 km of centre3423
Share of museums within 2 km %5233
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
DresdenLos Angeles
Score4254
Drinking venues within 4 km359660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km4364
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 23 points.23
DresdenLos Angeles
Score3962
Protected land share 50 km %1426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km80 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 26 points.26
DresdenLos Angeles
Score5933
Tourist attractions within 2 km3211
Park area within 2 km80 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLos Angeles
Score5354
Notable places within 2 km8288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenLos Angeles
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 25 points.25
DresdenLos Angeles
Score6287
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months48
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLos Angeles
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureDresdenLos Angeles
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m106 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLos Angeles
City population564,9043,898,747
People per km²1,7202,994
Museums within 10 km7038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7746
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.